CSX, Family Lines, BQ23-7 3004 -Chessie, C&O SD50 8564, at the B&O engine terminal at Connellsville, Pennsylvania. May 5, 1987. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo Built as, SCL 5134 BQ23-7, October, 1978... (more)
Back in the early days of COVID. Sheltering trackside.
The DPU on N760 enters the yard at the Duke Energy Rogers Complex (aka Cliffside Steam Station) as an emptied train pulls into the clear on the departure track. The top of Cliffside Unit 6 and th... (more)
Consistent with 403's consists: GE leader with a midbrain DPU. In this case the DPU was 801. For those Phil Manzernera, Brian Eno fans out there play that wonderful 801 live LP while sheltering.
A face only a mother could love! CSXT 3001, a rare BQ23-7, brings a transfer run thru Blue Island, IL in November of 1991.
With the warm and bright sun over, the lighting was good was southbounds and luckly CSX Q112 came south during that time, the train is seen here passing where the old boat house once was.
On the complete opposite end of the beauty scale from the U25C is the BQ23-7. Being a GE fan does not prevent the feeling that this is perhaps the ugliest locomotive ever built. But you can hard... (more)
Partially caked in snow, 3001 looks even stranger than normal.
Rare BQ23-7 built for Seaboard Coast Line / Family Lines.